MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has urged the US anew to include travel goods on the list of duty-free products under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program. “On our end, we’ve re-presented the request and the justifications on the travel goods. We requested for the inclusion of travel goods on the US GSP and we have a request to reconsider. The country’s earlier petition which the USTR deferred seeks to include travel goods such as luggage, handbags, pocket goods, backpacks, sports and travel bags. But for us, we’re saying we are still developing and we need support and this (travel goods) is an industry that is exporting $600 million and employing 70,000 people.

Source: Philippine Star September 16, 2016 16:05 UTC